Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan slammed the classroom shaming of a seven-year-old upper primary student from the minority Muslim community in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Uttar Pradesh. The incident that caused a national outcry occurred in a school in Muzaffarnagar after a video of Hindu students slapping their Muslim classmate allegedly at the instance of the class teacher surfaced on social media.
Mr. Vijayan said the incident typified how majoritarian Hindu nationalism could drain human values. It eroded humanism, undermined principles of humanism and fairness, retarded Renaissance values and rendered people cruel and blind to the pain of fellow citizens.
